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Delta Kappa Epsilon 

Half - Century Anniversary 



1856-1906 



THE CELEBRATION OF JUNE 27th, 
1906, TOGETHER WITH A COM- 
PLETE ROLL OF THE MEMBERS, 

Edited by 
PEKCY LOYALL WIGHT 




Clinton, New York 

GEOEGE WILLIAM BROWNING 

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CONTENTS 

Page 

Ambrose Parsons Kelsey, '56, Founder . . Frontispiece 

John Dryden Henderson, '68, President . . . Facing 7 

Scheme of the Celebration 7 

Asahel Norton Brockway, '57 Facing 11 

The Toastmaster's Address 11 

Henry Harper Benedict, '69 Facing 17 

The Oration 17 

Willis Judson Beecher, '58 Facing 31 

The Poem 31 

Warren Isbel Lee, '99 . Facing 41 

The History 41 

The Chapter House Facing 53 

The Eoll of Members . 53 



Scheme of the Celebiiatiok 



Scheme of the Celebration 




T the Annual Meeting o! the Incorpo- 
rated Association of the Tau Chapter 
of Delta Kappa Epsilon, held June 
28, 1905, plans were inaugurated for 
celebrating in a fitting manner the 
Fiftieth Anniversary of the Founding 
of the Chapter. The date was set for 
Wednesday evening of the 1906 Commencement week. 
Dr. A. Norton Brockway, '57, was elected President for 
the occasion, and Chairman of the General Committee, 
the other members of which were Murray H. Gardner, '84, 
Frank H. Finn, '98, Howard I. Davenport, '01, and Alex- 
ander M. Drummond, '06. 

On the evening of June 27, 1906, at the Annual 
Meeting in the Chapter House, Kobert G. Kelsey, '98, on 
behalf of his mother, his sisters and himself, presented to 
the Chapter a portrait of his father, P rofess orAm brose 
Parsons Kelsey, '56, the founder of Tau. 
" Theassemblage adjourned to Commons Hall, on the 
Hill, for the Anniversary Banquet. The program follows : 

A SONG 

By A. M. Drummond, '06. 
Tune : ''Die Wacbt am Rbein.'* 

We come across the rolling years 
With song and shout and rousing cheers 
OfTau, ofTauof AKE, 
With swelling hearts we pledge to thee. 
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Chorus : Dear AKE, our hearts are thine, 
Dear AKE, our hearts are thine, 
For Tauand Hamilton we guard thy shrine. 
For Tau and Hamilton we guard thy shrine. 

Full fifty years of love have sped, 
Tonight we bless thy haloed head ; 
From '56 thy decades run 
And every day^s crowned with a sun. 

CZzorw,s; Dear AKE, etc. 

The sons of yesterday and now 
Join in the sacred love-fraught vow. 
And time hath yet an ampler store 
To swell the prophecy of yore. 

Chorus : Dear AKE, etc. 

Wrapped in the mantle of thy love, 
A deathless brotherhood we move, 
Old Tau, old Tau of AKE, 
With swelling hearts we sing of thee. 

Chorus : Dear AKE, etc. 

The banquet menu is omitted in order to spare the 
feelings of those unable to be present and enjoy it. The 
Committee of arrangements were Hon. John D. Hender- 
son, '68, Percy L. Wight, '91, Eobert U. Hayes, '05, 
Walter M. Palmer, '05, and Harwood M. Schwartz, '07. 

Toastmaster . . Dr. A. Norton Brockway, '57 

Orator . . Hon. Henry Harper Benedict, '69 

Poet . . . Rev. Willis J. Beecher, D. D., '58 

Historian . . . Hon. Warren I. Lee, '99 

TOASTS 

Fraternity Life . . Hon. John D. Henderson, '68 
Ye Olden Time . . Hon. Charles Kelsey, '60 

Honors in College . Rev. Anthony H. Evans, D.D., '82 
The Second Generation . . Robert G. Kelsey, '98 
The Fraternity and College . Frederick W. Welsh, '92 
The XXth Century . Hon. R. C. S. Drummond, '01 



The Toastmaster's JIddress 



The Toastmaster's Address 

By Asahel Norton Brockway, M. D., Class of 1857 




t^'^ii ^j^k^^ l HE Sons of Tau meet tonight to celebrate her 

^^ M completed half century, her Golden Jubilee, of 

existence and to congratulate each other upon 
her long list of honors and successes. 

Fifty 3^ears ago last December a number of 
boys, not quite satisfied with the Fraternities 
which then existed in Hamilton College, petitioned 
Phi Chapter of A K E at Yale College, (which then had the 
power to grant charters) to establish here a new Chapter of our 
Fraternity. A Charter was granted January 15th, 1856, and in 
due time fourteen put on the diamond and scroll and stars and 
proclaimed to the world that a Chapter of A K E would hence- 
forth be known on College Hill. We were proud boys, though 
some of us were not a little fearful as to what reception would be 
accorded us. Instead of the cold shoulder, we were welcomed to 
the Fraternity world of letters with hearty hand shakes and many 
were the questions asked as to our Brotherhood, of which many 
had heard, but of which few really knew^ anything. We met with 
no opposition and no attempts were made to belittle our 
organization, or the Fraternity of which we were a part. 

Ambrose Parsons Kelsey may justly be styled the Father 
of Tau, and to his unwearied efforts we owe our existence as a 
Chapter. He labored early and late and always most assiduously 
to promote her welfare. He was most ably assisted by men of 
strong intellects, such as Baldwin, Long and Newman of '57, 
Howe of '58 and Scott of '59 — men w^ho have been leaders in the 
world's activities ever since. We were hopeful and laid the 
foundations of our structure upon enduring rock, and during the 
last fifty years our Chapter has shown to the world that our 
structure is strong and abiding. 

During the first half year we had our doubts and our fears as 
to our future, but the fall of '56 found us with four excellent men, 

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two of whom were Charles Kelsey, a fine scholar and a brother of 
A. P. Kelsey, and John Keese Lewis, who was beyond question, 
even as a Freshman, the best speaker in the College. He proved 
his superiority by taking, in his Freshman year, the first prize in 
Declamation, and afterwards Clark Prize. In our first year, in 
addition to the fourteen, we admitted others, so that at its end 
we numbered twenty-one members, and we took the Salutatory 
and two other prizes and in '58 another, Willis J. Beecher, our 
Poet tonight, was Valedictorian. We considered that our work 
had been well begun and were satisfied. Of those twenty-one 
members, fifty years ago, the fatal star of the catalogue proclaims 
that eleven have gone to their reward. They are remembered 
with affection and their good works follow them. Seven of them 
served in the War of the Rebellion, two giving their lives for their 
country, Peebles, '59, on the Union, and Gwathmey, '58, on the 
Confederate side. 

Our Chapter has done honor to our Fraternity. Our Cata- 
logue of members is emblazoned with the names of those who 
have distinguished themselves in Arms, in Arts, in Science, in 
Literature, and in all that ennobles mankind and makes the world 
better. All honor to Tau Chapter ! 

The professional walks of life have been well occupied and 
adorned. Three have been Supreme Court Judges— Newman, '57, 
Foote, '70, and DeWitt, '75, and the ermine of justice has been 
unsullied at their hands. Two are Trustees of the College and 
Benedict of '69 brought great honor by his gift of the Hall of 
Languages and by many other munificent gifts to his Alma Mater 
and by his loyal remembrance to Tau Chapter enabling us to free 
the Chapter House of a burdensome debt. We are especially 
indebted to Brother Benedict for other most substantial proofs of 
his loyalty and devotion to his Mother Chapter. I say with you 
all, long life and continued prosperity to Brother Henry Harper 
Benedict. Fourteen have been Professors in Institutions Theo- 
logical, Legal and Literary. Three have been Missionaries in 
foreign lands and two have been foreign Ministers — Scott of '58 
and Norton of '73. Knapp, '66, was twice elected to Congress and 
served the two terms with distinction. 

Many of us remember the thrill of pride which we experienced 
when the announcement was made that Frank Foster Laird, '77, 



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had been awarded first prize at the Intercollegiate Oratorical 
Contest held in the Academy of Music in New York Cit}^ in 1877. 
Eleven have been honored with the degree of D.D. or LL.D. The 
long list of prizes and honors which have fallen to the lot of Tau's 
members makes us feel proud that our steps were turned into her 
portals. Her banner floats with the best of them all and we 
are proud of fifty years of achievement and prosperity, and look 
forward with confidence to her future. 

For my presence in this position of honor and the privilege of 
addressing you I am indebted to your Board of Ofiicers. Look- 
ing backward over five decades, replete with the exertions of 
persevering men working in many directions for the same ends, 
I am thankful to be able to be a participant in this semi- 
centennial celebration. Time has wrought very many changes 
during the half century of Tau's existence. At Tau's birth the 
Fraternity was twelve years old. She now rejoices in the mature 
age of sixty-two years. Her influence is widel}^ extended, her 
Catalogue of Members is wonderfully enlarged, so that now we 
number more than smj other Fraternity. Her Chapters are 
firmly established in the best Institutions of the land, and why 
should we not be the best of them all ? Labor well, m.j Brothers. 
Choose the best, always, and keep full high advanced the banner 
of our glorious Brotherhood. 

Dr. Beecher and I, tonight, are the sole representatives of 
the twenty-one members of the initial and crucial year of our 
existence. Eleven of the twenty-one have passed over to the 
majority. Ten a little longer wait lingering by the wayside. We 
were boys in that eventful year, enthusiastic, buoyant and proud 
of our Fraternity. 

Now the shady side of life claims us, but we are none the less 
enthusiastic, none the less proud of the achievements of Tau 
Chapter. 

Times and the College have wonderfully changed since fifty 
years ago. Of those then in authority, all the Trustees have 
passed away, and of those who then composed the Faculty all are 
gone save one, Tutor Hudson, now Kev. Dr. Hudson. The 
College Buildings then numbered seven, now we have fourteen, 
and all substantial structures of which we are proud. The 
Faculty consisted of nine, the President, six Professors, and two 



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Tutors, all learned men, and we respected them for their scholarlj^ 
attainments. We have an enlarged and beautified Campus, the 
most charming in the country. We have the same lovely and 
enchanting view of the distance over the beautiful Oriskany 
Valley to the distant hills beyond, a view nowhere surpassed or 
soon forgotten. The College has taken to herself new strength 
and added influence and a prestige never before attained. 
Hamilton, which we love so well to call our own, ranks with the 
best in the land and she prides herself upon her long list of 
distinguished alumni. From Tau's past history her future is 
assured. We look forward with confidence and pride to her 
continued prosperity and our best wishes are that the days and 
years before her may be as brilliant as those now past. 




The Oration 



The Oration 

By Henry Harper Benedict, Class of 1869 




S this Half-Century Celebration implies, the Tau 
Chapter of Delta Kappa Epsilon dates from 
1856, the year of the Fremont campaign, five 
3^ears before the outbreak of the Eebellion, only 
four 3^ears after the death of Clay and Webster, 
six years after the great Slavery Compromises 
" of 1850, eight years after the discovery of gold 

in California. Tonight we round out a period of Mty years. 
It is a long time. Moses was a long time in Midian, but it was 
only forty years. The Children of Israel were a long time in the 
Wilderness, but it was only forty years. The greatest life 
that was ever lived in the world, the life from which all 
subsequent events have been dated and will be to the end of 
time, was a life of only thirty-three years. Tau of A K E 
(I make the comparison with unspeakable reverence) has existed 
seventeen years longer than our Saviour tarried on the earth. 
The Fraternity was born in another age than this, an age so 
different from the present that its history has something of the 
flavor of remote antiquity. It was an age of small populations 
in this countr^^, of limited wealth, of undeveloped resources and 
unexplored territor^^— an age when there were few railroads, no 
sleeping cars, no transatlantic telegraph, certainly no wireless 
telegraphy, no telephone, no phonograph, no electric light or 
electric propulsion, no breech-loading firearms — an age w^hen 
slavery still cursed the land, and Abraham Lincoln w^as an unrisen 
star of hope to the black man. Webster, the profoundest states- 
man of his time and the greatest orator, perhaps, of an^^ time ; 
Cla^'^, the astutest politician and the most magnetic personality, 
but always the compromiser ; Calhoun, the irreconcilable— these 
giants had led the antagonistic forces through many long years, 
and had passed aw^ay; and the jesiT of the Fremont campaign 
found the "Irrepressible Conflict" between freedom and slavery 

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still raging, with no visible prospect of termination or abatement. 

Then it was that something happened. A Pennsylvania 
Democrat, a gentleman of the old school, the scholarly, the 
polished, the courtly, the amiable, the irreproachable, but 
invertebrate, James Buchanan, was elected President ; and those 
of us who, too young to vote, had rent the heavens with our 
hurrahs for Fremont, the brilliant pathfinder of the West, were 
heartbroken. 

But Heaven overruled the mistakes of men, and when in four 
years Buchanan went out of office, with "none so poor to do him 
reverence," we had reached the threshold of the new era. Lincoln's 
hand was on the helm, and unhesitatingly and unflinchingly he 
sw^ung the shivering ship of state into the teeth of the storm. 
The craft which carried the hopes of human liberty rode out the 
tempest, but when the billows had sunk to rest and the sun again 
kissed the flag, the greatest figure of the modern world had 
vanished. Lincoln was dead, and the earth was lonelier for his 
absence. But the transformation had come. 

The war period was the dividing line between the old and the 
new. We older men have seen the nation re-created, and have 
witnessed a development in ideas, in government, in liberty, in 
inventions, in science and in art, which the younger men, born 
into a new age, can hardly comprehend. All of this trans- 
formation has been seen by Tau of A K E. 

But this is not all that Tau has seen. The changes in the 
modern world, especially in the last half century, and not alone 
in our own country— changes political, social, scientific and 
historical, have been kaleidoscopic in rapidity and in brilliancy 
of rearrangement. Victor Hugo called the defeat of Napoleon at 
Waterloo, " a change of front of the universe." Victor Hugo was 
given to exaggeration. If he could describe the result of Waterloo 
as a change of front of the universe, what w^ords could he have 
found in his all but limitless vocabulary to describe the changes 
that have occurred in the world since Waterloo, and especially 
since the American Civil War! Not always changes of front, 
indeed, but rather the forward march of progress. 

Tau has seen the unification of Italy and the rise of the 
German Empire : it has seen France and Brazil abandoning the 
forms of monarchy and adopting the principles of democracy : it 



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has beheld in Africa the rise of the semi-civilized power of 
Ab^'ssinia: the establishment (for good or evil — I think 
ultimately for good) of the Congo State: the splendid work of 
England in Egypt, and her march through ways of blood to the 
ultimate betterment, let us hope, of the vast regions of South 
Africa. And it has observed the influences which are tending 
towards the civilization of all the African Continent. It has 
witnessed the disappearance of the Spanish Power from the 
Western World, and the separation of Church and State in France. 

But, more than all, it has seen that most spectacular event 
of modern history — the new birth of Japan. 

Until 1852 Japan had been a hermit nation having no 
communication with the outer world. Subsequent acquaintance 
with her has shown that her people were a wonderful people even 
in isolation ; but her attitude was at variance with the trend of 
histor}^ and antagonistic to the development of human destiny — 
an attitude not simply illogical, but, under the workings of divine 
Providence, impossible. The enlightenment of the world must soon 
or late cleave asunder such an anomal}'-, and it was the United 
States that finally drove the entering wedge. In 1852 Com- 
modore Perry was sent on his mission to Japan, and two years 
later, in 1854, he secured an agreement with Japan to open one 
port to the commerce of the world. This was the travail of the 
new birth. Up to that time the condition of Japan was in many 
respects that of Europe in the middle ages. The feudal system, 
which had vanished from Europe centuries before, still prevailed, 
and, indeed, did not disappear until more than ten years later. 
Though essentially a military nation, her armies still fought their 
civil wars with bows and arrows. In the half century that has 
elapsed since, the progress of Japan has been the miracle of 
history. Hampered by tradition and blinded by long seclusion, 
this wonderful people has absorbed the thought of the ages, and 
translated into action the wisdom of mankind. Many of us here 
present are old enough to have grasped the hand of the last feudal 
lord, and to have seen the morning break over the darkness of 
the mediaeval Eastern world; and now the people who within 
our memory were fighting with bows and arrows, and who, later 
still, began the study of military tactics by moving toy soldiers 
about on the fioors of their houses, have given points in the art 



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of war to the drilled armies of Western Europe. Undertaking 
boldly what no other nation would have dared to undertake, they 
have humbled Kussia to the dust, and have shown that the world 
need no longer tremble at the name of the "Colossus of the North." 

Nor do they seem less great in the arts of peace. In trade, 
in manufactures, in orderly government, in statesmanship, in 
political and social economics, in short, in all that goes to make 
up what w^e call civilization, this new-born nation is the marvel of 
the world. She has appropriated in fifty years what the rest of 
the world has wrought out in fifty painful centuries. 

This, in part and in briefest outline, is the panorama that has 
been unrolled to the view of the Tau Chapter of A K E. Tau 
throughout its half centurj^ of life has touched the world at the 
most interesting period of human progress. It is a great 
privilege to have lived since 1856, and opportunity always 
implies obligation. I am not going to preach to you ; but it is 
well enough at times to refresh our memories and compare notes. 
The world moves: do we move with it? Nay more: do we lead 
the movement ? 

Let us speak first of Hamilton College. For more than 
twenty years after my graduation I seldom visited my Alma 
Mater. Circumstances finally brought me back. I found that 
changes had occurred. Some of these filled by soul with sadness. 
My fellow students had gone out into life, and some had not 
returned ; and dear faces were missing from the Faculty. 

Dr. Oren Root— for whose eulogy volumes would not suffice — 
was gone. He was one of the strongest and wisest, one of the 
noblest and one of the most lovable men I have ever met. I can 
never adequately express my appreciation of his kindness and 
helpfulness to me throughout my college course, and to the end of 
his life, and I shall never cease to love him and revere his memor}^ 

Dr. North, at the time of which I am now speaking, was still 
with us, and his sweet and beautiful life, with its gracious influence 
and its inspiration to all high endeavor, was prolonged for many 
years. His memoirs have been written with filial piety, and with 
rare ability, judgment, and sense of proportion, b^^ his dis- 
tinguished son ; but no written words can ever express the love of 
Hamilton men for "Old Greek." 

Dr. Upson, whose gentle spirit still sheds its influence upon us, 



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now that he has gone to his reward, who in his department, as 
Dr. Peters in his, had made the name of Hamilton College known 
throughout the land and throughout the world — Dr. Upson had 
been called to other fields of labor, and his loss was keenly felt. 
With all honor to his successors, let me sa^^ that the best any of 
them could hope to do would be to continue his system of 
instruction unimpaired ; and my earnest hope and prayer is that, 
for the good of Hamilton College and the success of the work 
which Hamilton men have to do in the world, the Upsonian 
tradition may never pass away, nor lose one iota of its force. 

At the time I was in college our instructors were of the best : 
they had our love and respect ; and we profited, or tried to profit, 
or failed to profit, depending upon the individual, by their 
instruction. But when I came back from my long absence 
conditions had changed: the world had moved forward. Com- 
petitions were keener, thought had quickened, issues had become 
more practical, and the demands upon educated men had become 
louder and more insistent. To meet these increasing demands 
Hamilton was setting its house in order. 

It would be carrying coals to New^castle to tell you what 
Hamilton has done in the last decade and more. We are none of 
us hungering to hear more about "the small college": the term 
has come to have a rather familiar sound. What is the proper 
function of the college, and what the proper function of the 
university, has ceased to be a question. The college aims to make 
men: the university takes men, or should, and equips them for 
usefulness, in whatever sphere, by specialized instruction, by 
practical training. The college lays the foundation: the uni- 
versity builds the superstructure. The old Norman cathedral 
builders piled great masses of masonry upon the ground, or at 
best upon insufBcient foundations, with the result that there 
is scarcely a Eomanesque church in Europe whose towers or 
heavier portions have not at some time collapsed. Similar 
results might be expected if masses of university specialization 
should be piled up without the sure foundation of a college 
training. The Germans have the correct word— gymnasium. 
The college trains and streng-thens the mental muscles; it 
enables the mind to lift weights, so to speak— to throw the 
hammer ; to swing the dumbbells ; it clarifies the mental 



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vision; it strengthens the reasoning faculties; it increases 
the powers of observation and concentration — contemplation 
and reflection are both improved. Or, to sum it all up in a word, 
the effect of the college course is, or should be, to enable a man to 
think. If he can do this he is prepared to grasp the equipment 
which university or other post-graduate work provides ; and if he 
is honest, and is not lazy, his success in life is sure : he can make 
opportunities : he can overcome difficulties : he can "grind up cir- 
cumstances in his mill " : he can turn obstacles into stepping stones. 

Still steering clear of a dissertation on "the small college", I 
must say this : that you in Hamilton have an advantage greater 
than words can express over the students of the university or the 
large college, in being in direct personal contact with, and under 
the constant influence of, such men as compose your faculty. 
Some of them are remarkable men. If Thomas Arnold could 
"change the face of education in England", what shall be said of 
your President? When Dr. Stryker's work comes to be known, 
and his greatness appreciated, he will be counted among the 
marked men of his time. Do not overlook this fact. Do not miss 
your opportunity. You are passing through a stately corridor 
whose walls are hung with beauty and whose every cabinet is 
filled with treasures, new and old. You have a guide who will 
point out to you the things that will make for your good. If you 
follow him, if you hear and heed him, you will be able to say when 
you emerge and look out upon the broad horizon: "Dr. Stryker 
and his splendid faculty have taught me many things ; and this 
they have taught me— to think for myself. I can think for 
myself, and therefore 1 can act for myself. I will act. Yonder is 
the prize. I will make an honest effort to win it." 

I visited the college in 1896, when Dr. Stryker was in the 
early years of his presidency, and I was forcibly struck by the 
earnestness which seemed to pervade the whole body of students. 
I saw no unhappy faces, but every face was earnest and revealed 
a purpose. This earnestness has not diminished with the years, 
and it is one of the most hopeful signs to those who love the 
college and look for its usefulness in the world. It is promoted 
by the esprit de corps which exists in the fraternities. Esprit de 
corps, by the way, is a term seldom or never heard in France, but 
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Esprit de corps is a local patriotism — a love for one's own. 
It is shown in Fourth of July enthusiasms, and in the loyalty that 
leads men to die for their country. Similarly it appears in the 
desire which we of Tau feel for the success of the Chapter and of 
the men who compose it. Like love of one's home ; like love of 
one's country, is this love of fraternity men for their fraternity 
and for each other. It arouses enthusiasm, stimulates effort and 
facilitates achievement. 

Henry Ward Beecher, in his novel '^Norwood", said: "When 
enough men hold a truth in common to give to that truth a social 
influence, its range and power become greatly increased ; but no 
one knows the very royalty of a truth until the whole community 
are aroused, made sensitive and sympathetic, and give to truth 
the force of glowing enthusiasm. Not only is the power of a truth 
thus disclosed, but a community is knit together and enriched by 
being made subject to some one worthy impulse all together, by 
consciously holding some great truth with a common enthusiasm. ' ' 

Mr. Beecher was speaking of religious revivals, but his 
language applies almost exactly to what I am talking about— 
the powder and effect of esprit de corps in the College fraternities. 
The members of Tau are working with a common purpose to a 
common end : they hold great truths in common ; and the daily 
contact kindles a lofty enthusiasm. The touch of mind upon 
mind, of soul upon soul, is like the stroke of flint upon steel. The 
intellectual and spiritual natures of a body of men busied with the 
same themes come to be like a prism collecting the sun's rays and 
concentrating them upon a point, until a spark appears w^hich 
may grow to a flame, and finally to an all consuming conflagration. 
Great and burning enthusiasms are never kindled in the solitary 
breast : it is only when masses of men are swayed by a common 
emotion that the shout goes up, and the roof rings with applause. 
And this sudden and transient enthusiasm is, by esprit de corps, 
that is, by the fraternit,y spirit, made continuous and permanent. 
Emotions become common emotions. The purpose of the 
individual becomes the purpose of all. Souls are knit together : 
immortal friendships spring up; and cumulative powder, which 
works, not in arithmetical but in geometrical ratio to the power 
of the individual, is brought to bear upon the problems of life. 

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esprit de corps as a creative and moving force until he has made 
some study of that supreme form of it, Bushido, and has attained 
some comprehension of the influence of Bushido upon the Japanese 
character. 

Bushido, as translated by Prof. Nitobe, of the Imperial 
University of Kyoto, who has written a book upon the subject, 
means ''The Precepts of Knighthood". It is "a system of moral 
principles which the Knights were required or instructed to 
observe." It embraces justice, courage, benevolence, politeness, 
veracity and sincerity, honor, loyalty, self-control, the martial 
spirit, exaltation of womanhood, and much else: it includes 
chivalry, but something more, and is, I think, the sublimest 
system of morals known to man. 

It had a various origin which we shall not now attempt to 
trace. It was a growth, not a creation. It was a product of 
many minds, and partakes of Buddhism, Shintoism, and the 
teachings of Confucius and many more. The old Samurai class — 
the warrior class— had been imbued with it centuries ago, but it 
has spread to a greater or less extent to the whole Japanese 
people. 

Nothing, perhaps, more strongly impresses the observer of 
the Japanese struggle with Russia than the loyalty and absolute 
obedience to orders— the oneness of feeling— which pervaded the 
Japanese army, from the Emperor down to the common soldier. 
This was the manifestation of Bushido. Loyalty to the Emperor 
was in it : loyalty to flag and country : loyalty to all the precepts 
of this unique system of morals which made it the unquestioned 
and unquestionable rule in the Japanese army to fight to the 
death, with no thought of retreat, and no feeling of fear. 

Japan's military achievements have puzzled the soldiers, and 
her political advance has puzzled the statesmen, of the whole 
world. A mystery has seemed to brood over those islands in the 
far Pacific. The nations have stood in awe, as in the presence of 
something superhuman. But the key to the mystery is Bushido. 
The phenomenal success of the Japanese arms lay not so much in 
manual dexterity, or tactical skill, or even the genius of general- 
ship, though all these were present, as in the Japanese character, 
which, under the profound and subtle influence of Bushido, has 
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It is impossible to appreciate fully the vital force of Bushido 
without long and profound study— indeed, I think it would be 
impossible without a residence in Japan, or at least mingling 
fpeely with the Japanese people. But this much we have seen — 
that esprit de corps is a tremendous force when it is broadened 
out to include a whole nation, and deepened down to the very 
foundations of character. 

Bushido, mind you, is not a religion — it is not even a pagan 
religion; it is but a loosely-connected system of morals; and 
although the loftiest in the world, yet lacking in that which we 
regard as supreme ; for whatever may be our differences of faith, 
all Western religions are agreed that love is finally to rule. But 
being held in common by all classes, Bushido inspires that lofty 
enthusiasm which comes from the concentration of many minds 
upon common themes. Moreover, in the course of centuries it has 
become embedded in the Japanese character, and is never 
questioned ; and when the spark is kindled, a zeal which, but for 
the calm reason behind it, might be mistaken for fanaticism, 
flashes like an electric current throughout the nation, and the 
nation stands solid for justice, honor, loyalty, chivalry and all 
the other principles which go to make up the system of morals 
laid down in Bushido for the guidance of human conduct. It gave 
Japan the victory over Kussia, and has pushed Nippon to the 
front rank of nations. And so, while having no religion, in our 
sense of the term, all action becomes to the Japanese religious. 
They can fight with the courage of the Moslem : they can pursue 
science with the patience of the German : they can do business with 
the practical good sense of the Englishman or the American ; and 
all with an earnestness of purpose that does not permit defeat. 

This is esprit de corps, and in the supreme degree. It lacks, 
how^ever, one element of our fraternity spirit, and that is the 
element of personal friendship and love, which with us is a 
tremendous source of powder. Our esprit de corps — our fraternity 
spirit — appears in this gathering tonight. It has brought together 
the beginning, the continuation and the end of our half century of 
fraternity life. The high noon of the Nineteenth Century is here, 
and the dawn and early morning of the Twentieth Century — the 
founders who first flung our banner of Tau to the breeze, and 
those who are now bearing it at the head of the column. There 



26 '^he Oration 



are gaps in the ranks : there are many stars in our catalogue. 
Prof. Kelsey, the genial, the gracious, the courteous, the chivalrous 
Christian scholar— the friend of every A K E and of all mankind 
— is no more seen among us, but his memory lives in our hearts, 
and tonight we lay our reverent tribute upon his grave. 

^' Green be the turf above thee, 
Friend of our better days : 
None knew thee but to love thee, 
Nor named thee but to praise." 

Prof. John James Lewis, than whom in all our brotherhood we 
have seen no ^'gentler, stronger, manlier man " — he, too, has 
beheld the glory beyond the gates of pearl. 

Of the men of my own time, Knapp is gone, and Wells, and 
Laird, and Foote, and Finn ; and all along the line we look in vain 
for familiar faces that we shall not see again until the dawn of the 
unending day. 

But our hearts are gladdened by those whom our eyes do 
behold, and who have been drawn by the fraternity spirit to this 
place and time of rejoicing. See that youthful nestor. Dr. Brock- 
way. College friendships have cheered the whole course of his busy 
and blameless life. His service to AKE, to Hamilton College and 
to humanity will ever be held in grateful memory. 

See that skittish young greybeard, John Dryden Henderson. 
I have known him since the time when he would have given much 
to possess any beard at all. Now the beard is luxuriant, but 
alas! where is his top-hair? You may search me: I have not 
taken it. Despite his somewhat splendid appearance tonight, 
Henderson was never a dude ; he has never imitated the fashions 
of Beau Brummel and the other dandies of the Georgian Era, 
or of our own era, but he will wear a white robe, one day, and 
there will be no whiter in all that great throng which no man can 
number. But let that day be long in coming. 

Here is Prof. Beecher- a name at which in my time we doffed 
our hats. We doff them now. Prof. Beecher, for all that you 
have been and are to this Fraternity and to this College — for all 
that you have been and are in the work of building character and 
promoting the cause of righteousness in the world, I respectfully 
and affectionately salute you. 

We of the Alumni come back from our fields of labor and 



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conflict, and our ranks are thinned. We went out into life when 
the day was young: we come back to find that the afternoon 
shadows are lengthening, and the level rays of the sinking sun are 
glancing through the trees. We grasp each other's hands: w^e 
look upon each other's faces: we renew the old associations. 
Tomorrow we shall be scattered, and this gathering will be 
broken up forever. Our time is growing short: the twilight 
deepens : what work remains for us to do must be done quickly. 
But, the present active members of Tau, and those who are to 
come after them, stand upon the heights of opportunity, in a new 
world of changed conditions. 

The work of the world must be done by the educated men ; 
and an immeasurable responsibility rests upon Hamilton, and 
upon the Tau Chapter of A K E as a constituent part of the 
college. Tau has seen the movement of the world for fifty years. 
The movement has been general all along the line, but the pro- 
gress of Japan has opened the eyes of the world to the possibility 
of new adjustments, new relations and new problems. Henceforth 
whoever w^ould study the philosophy of history must read the 
story of Japan. But now China shows signs of life; and when 
that vast Empire wakes from her dream of centuries and moves 
out into the current of modern history, w^e shall witness a loosen- 
ing and shifting of political and economic forces on a scale 
unparalleled in the annals of mankind. The yellow peoples will 
henceforth be a factor for good or evil in the destinies of the 
human race. Whether for good or evil will depend, in part, upon 
this chapter of our Fraternity. China and Japan come to our 
colleges : they seek in the West the knowledge which they subse- 
quently melt and make up into the wisdom of the East. The men 
of Tau, whether as instructors, law-givers, or molders of opinion 
and character in whatever sphere, must each bear the responsi- 
bility of his influence upon the Asiatic mind. 

So Tau and Hamilton College stand today in the environ- 
ment of history, and have their part of the world's work to do, for 
the East and for the West. They cannot shirk it. And, thank 
Heaven, they have no desire to shirk it : they are fired with an 
earnest purpose : their eyes are filled with the morning light, and 
all the sky above them is radiant with promise. The future 
holds infinite possibilities, and the educated man of action, 
consecrated and purposeful, is the hope of the world. 



The Voem 



The Poem 



THE FOUNDERS 

By Willis Judson Beecher, Class of 1858 




1906 

RE AT times no doubt are these In which we live, 
Rich in all blessings wealth and art can give. 
The crowding millions of our countrymen 
Are counted up at fourscore more than ten. 
And year by year a boasting press declares 

Our swelling list of multimillionaires. 

Each town distributes books to young and old 

'Neath roofs erected by Carnegie's gold ; 

And through the land unnumbered students toil 

In famous schools endowed by Standard Oil. 

On every street the trolley bears its load, 
The automobile puffs on every road, 
The modern doctor hears his patient groan 
A thousand miles away, by telephone. 

Our armored vessels on all waters cruise. 
And from mid-ocean wireless send their news. 
No longer to one continent confined, 
Columbia's flag floats in the orient wind. 
The many nations of the earth have felt 
The power of Hay and Root and Roosevelt. 

The times are flush, and not unconscious we 
Of all the glories of the century. 
But while among these scenes w^e come and go, 
Yet hark we back to Fifty Years Ago. 

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1856 

DEARER to nature lived our countrymen ; 
They had not crowded into cities then. 
Steamships and mines and railways then were few. 
The photograph and telegraph were new. 

No lines of wire across the ocean went, 
No iron belt across the continent. 
William B. Astor, lonely millionaire, 
Was being joined by others here and there ; 
But luxury was scarce throughout the land, 
While frugal comfort spread on every hand. 

Yet in those years not less than in our own 
Perchance high thought and purposes were known. 
Nay, not "perchance " ; the record we shall see 
Of those strong men who founded A K E. 

National Questions in 1856 

^<HE Abolitionists political, 
^-^ By slave power driven helpless to the wall, 
Had met their downfall when old parties broke, 
Save that which meekly wore oppression's yoke. 
Then from the deepest darkness a new light 
Had risen on the nation's opening sight. 
Led by great Seward, from the chaos forth 
Came a new party sweeping all the North. 
It spoke ; to slavery's flood it stoutly said : 
"Thus far; but here shall thy proud waves be stayed." 

This party's champions in fifty-six 
First struggled in the nation's politics. 
Fremont and Dayton bore its standard high. 
Astonished slavery felt that doom was nigh. 
(In all the South the black man was a slave). 
Low threatening growls secession's monster gave. 



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The Hamilton Faculty of 1856 

IN fifty-six our Mother on the hill 
Lived simply in her cottage, if you will. 
Not 3^et her many halls the hillside crowned ; 
Her broadened campus, her athletic ground, 
Her pealing organ, and her trees grown large, 
Were yet of future times to be the charge. 
Her means were scant, but her ideals were high ; 
And had she e'er a stronger Faculty ? 
Count them, they number eight, but weigh their worth, 
They rank among the great ones of the earth. 
Prex Simeon North with his fine scholarship. 
And Curtis with his philosophic grip. 
And Avery the rubicund, what though 
He lacked the discipline that pedants know ? 
We knew his wit, how keen sometimes the smart ! 
His vast attainments and his big warm heart. 
And Oren Root the first, far-seeing, keen 
In mathematics, but yet more, I ween, 
In large ideals for the time to be— 
Treeplanter, scientist, and prophet he. 
And Edward North, then in his early prime, 
The ''grand old Greek" he was in after time. 
And Upson, greater son of Mandeville, 
His name and power still linger on the hill. 
*And Hudson, worth}^ in this group to fall. 
And Dwight, the largest, strongest of them all. 

These eight the fame of Hamilton maintained. 
No weaklings they, nor weak the men they trained. 
Ill paid, with scant resources, forth they stood 
For learning, culture, truth, the right, the good. 
Happy the college whose rich patrons pour 
Their millions to increase her ample store 
For halls, equipment, books, but happier when 
She fills her chairs with fine and manly men. 



^Benjamin R. Catlin was also tutor the first part of 1855-56. 



34 *=rAe Poem 



The Foundees of Tau 

ON these great names due praise and honor wait, 
But not on these alone. Another eight, 
The charter men of Tau of A K E, 
Their laurels claim from willing minstrelsj^ 
Kelsey, and Washburn, Baldwin, Newman, Long, 
Howe, Lusk, and Scott deserve the meed of song. 

Eight men like other men, their lives before them ; 
Eight men, the halo of youth's vision o'er them ; 
Unlike thej^ were ; through fifty years of days 
Their steps have wended many different ways. 
Each for himself has proved of fate the master, 
Judge, mayor, lawyer, legislator, pastor. 
Professor, missionary, editor ; 
Half yet remain, and half have gone before. 

These brought the charter to the hill we love ; 
The plant took root at once, it grew and throve. 
Six other men, in equal rank with these, 
Were in this pi'mal group of A K E's. 
Here Willoughby and Brockway we must put, 
Along with Satchwell, Hastings, Loomis, Root. 

And shall the muse, invidious, single out 
Some for especial mention, while, no doubt, 
Their unnamed comrades as deserving are ? 
But let the unnamed all the glory share. 

Professor Ambrose P. Kelsey, 
Give him high honor, or else he 
Will fail of his meed 
For the great work he did. 
Who could have done it as well's he? 

Wisconsin delighted in Newman, 
Legislator and Justice, a true man. 

He spoke from the floor, 

And the ermine he wore. 
And this was only his due, man. 



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At Albany legislator, 

Than most of his fellows greater, 

Deeply mourned Tau 

For Henry Clay Howe, 
And so did his Alma Mater. 

Nimrod, beloved of the people, 

Strong with the strength that could keep all, 

Our bold Norman Root, 

How well he could shoot ! 
See the hole in the vane on the steeple. 

John Long was a little creature, 
Larger in mind than in feature ; 

Remembered because 

College poet he was ; 
He still lives, a Christian preacher. 

And Brock way of fifty-seven, 
Here with us his presence is given, 

Physician, Trustee, 

And true A K E, 
Preserve us the Brockway leaven ! 

Such were the founders, men of various mold, 
Strong-hearted, level-headed, true, and bold. 
The work they wrought has proved its right to be 
By fifty years of toil and victory. 

Tau in the Great War 

'^WAS not the fate of Tau's first A K E's 
^^ To stay at home in lives of cultured ease. 
Secession reared its huge black front afar. 
The imperiled nation called her sons to war. 
Where should Tau's men then be but at the front? 
Who but our A K E's should bear the brunt ? 

Of men, the first decade, to wear the scroll 
Of brotherhood there were upon the roll 



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Less than threescore ; of these one man in three 
Served in the battles fought for libert}^ 
No carpet-soldiers they, one man in four 
Fell on the field, and home returned no more. 

Ah, those sad months of eighteen sixt^^-four ! 
In April Peebles died at Grand Ecore. 
Dear genial Hubert, Louisiana fair 
Is richer for thy blood outflowing there. 
Allen and Butts in May in battle fell 
On ground Virginian, and, fighting well, 
Gwathmey in August fell in Tennessee. 
And in September, Buckingham, ah me ! 
He of the "Youthful Spirit," he who had 
The gifts of genius, he who made us glad. 
Our Charlie, bold and brilliant, shed his blood 
Upon Virginian soil at Weldon Road. 

The Newest Graduating Class 

QEACE came, and our beloved Fraternity 
Has prospered as the years have glided by. 
Not mine her varied glories to record. 
Or praise the men who here keep watch and ward. 
But is her present worthy of her past ? 
And do her glories grow as well as last ? 
And have the men of Six as good a show 
As Fifty-Six had fifty years ago ? 

Answer William T. Purdy ; 
Truly have you not heard, he 

Is on in debate. 

And an orator great. 
And a singer and athlete sturdy ? 

Answer Martin A. Driscoll ; 
He can respond to this call. 

In study or chess. 

Or other success. 
To call him weak is to miscall. 



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Or let Alec M. Drumniond answer, 
Who says to all feats, ''Yes, I can, sir." 

His brothers and he 

What may they not be ? 
A right A K E sort of man, sir. 

The Future 

HONG live our Alma Mater, Hamilton. 
And long live Delta Kappa Epsilon. 
Long live the Trustees and the Faculty, 
And Stryker, President, long, long live he. 
Long may the varying decades as they pass 
Present to Tau from each succeeding class 
Choice men to be initiates, gifted, bright. 
Men who achieve, w^ho live within the light, 
Men of clean habits, men w^ho have the dowser 
Of healthy bodies, men of social power. 
Who wear the genial smile of fellowship, 
Who know" the priceless worth of love's warm grip, 
God-fearing men who choose the better part, 
Four-square, and friends forever from the heart. 



The HisTonv 



The History 

By Warren Isbel Lee, Class of 1899 




HE Tau posterity, which tonight celebrates fifty 

years of honorable history, owes its ancestry to 

Kelsey, Washburn and Willoughby of '56 

Baldwin, Brockway, Long and Newman of '57 

Hastings, Howe, Loomis, Lusk and Root of '58 

and Griswold and Scott of '59. These brothers, 

fourteen in all, brought into being Tau of A K E in January of 

1856. The birth scene is said to have been as follows : 

The foregoing ancestors, all of w^hom ''had learned to tell the 
high-ball from Prexie's hairless pate", dined one night at Bagg's 
Hotel in Utica, and tradition tells us that they dined as A K E's 
love to dine. The hospitality which was uncorked made them 
aware that there assembled were fourteen good fellows and leaders 
in every form of College life. In stronger friendship they returned 
to Clinton, stopped at the place kept by Jim Mahaney's grand- 
father, and then proceeded by spasmodic stages to the Hill. 
During that hillward journey they painted zebra stripes on 
President North's Jersey calf, threw three Sig Freshmen into the 
Oriskany, tore up the sidewalk on Freshman Hill, and then 
decided to apply for a Deke Charter. It was granted in January, 
1856, and Tau quickly took and has since maintained its 
supremacy among the fraternities of Hamilton. 

Before the Commencement which next followed the founding 
of Tau, the Chapter was strengthened by the admission of Satch- 
well, Beecher and Gwathmey of '58, and Hubbard, Miner and 
Peebles of '59. Of these fourteen Charter Members, to whom Tau 
owes so much, Brockway, Long, Root and Washburn, are living, 
and Brother Brockway is here tonight. There is present also 
Brother Beecher, who was the first to be admitted to the Chapter 
after its foundation. Since the death of Brother A. P. Kelsey, 
who in bis lifetime was to Tau a tower of strength. Brother 

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42 ^he History 



Brockway, who is a good doctor as well as a good Deke, has, of 
these pioneers, followed most closely the fortunes of the Chapter 
which he helped to establish, as trustee of the College, as giver of 
the Brockway Entrance Prize, as the efficient Secretary of 
Hamilton's New York Alumni Association, as a member of the 
A K E Council, as Catalogue Editor ; and, as a more than ordinary 
good and faithful brother among us, he has made to himself a 
debtor of every Alumnus of Hamilton, and of ever3^ brother of the 
Chapter, which has constantly been the recipient of his interest 
and his care. 

More than passing mention should be made of another of our 
founders — Brother A. Miner Griswold of '59, wanting under the 
nom de plume of the "Fat Contributor" and editing the Texas 
Siftings, he achieved and deserved a reputation as a humorist and 
as a lecturer which is not held in equal degree by any man now 
living. At Tau's house-warming, during the Commencement of 
1888, he responded in part, as follows, to the toast: "The girls 
we left behind us." 

"Brother Toastmaster and Brother Dekes: The toast that 
you have assigned to me is one that touches a very tender chord 
in my heart. I have always felt sorry for the girls we left behind 
us; it seemed cruel at the time, but how could we help it. 
Circumstances were such that we couldn't possibly take them 
along ; we had to leave them behind us. I think I promised three 
or four of them to come back for them in the spring or early 
autumn, but I was too busy for several years to attend to it, and 
after that I was afraid my wife would not like it. * * A rare 
collection of girls they were, gentlemen, as I recall them now: 
Tall, willowy girls, short, plump girls ; black -eyed girls that made 
us blue, and blue-eyed girls that we were willing to take a black 
eye for anytime ; fair complexioned girls, brown girls. Smith girls, 
girls with auburn hair, and girls who not being able to match 
their own hair in Auburn, were compelled to buy it in Syracuse or 
Utica. In fact, there was about every kind of girl there is now, 
except the tailor-made girl. Still, the latter has points in her 
favor. While the girl that I so tenderly recall possessed virtue, 
beauty, intelligence, I must admit that she somehow lacked the 
get-up— in fact, she hadn't got the bustle of the girl of today. 



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No, Brothers of the oldeu time, we must confess that in comparison 
with the tailor-made girl of today the girl we left behind us had 
very little left behind her. Still we remember her with tenderness 
and respect; and let us all join in a bumper to the girl of long 
ago." 

Griswold's early home was in the village of Westmoreland, 
and there he was buried in 1892. His relatives and the friends of 
his boyhood were gone, and jDractically the only ones to assist in 
the last sad rites were members of his fraternity. Our Chapter 
attended his funeral in a body, and their loyalty and devotion to 
the Brother who was gone moved the one relative of Brother 
Griswold, who had accompanied the remains to Westmoreland, to 
exclaim : ''If it were not for what A K E has done today I would 
go back to New York broken-hearted."' 

During the first eighteen months of its existence the Chapter 
met in the rooms of the Masonic Lodge in Clinton, and then moved 
to Old South College, a portion of which was set apart for its use 
in accordance with a rule of the faculty, the other fraternities 
being accorded similar privileges in the two dormitories. Two 
rooms were given over to the use of the Chapter. The front room 
was occupied by two of the members as a stud}^ and sleeping 
room, while connected with it and sej)arated by an iron door was 
the lodge room proper. The Chapter house was here for ten years, 
when by a faculty edict all fraternities were banished from the 
College dormitories. Quarters were then found in the village in a 
house opposite the park and near the present site of the Clinton 
House. Here, and later, in another village residence, the Chapter 
had its headquarters until April 1st, 1885, when it moved to the 
old Spencer house, on the site of our present home, at the foot of 
College Hill. After 29 years of wandering, Tau for the first time 
knew the Chapter House life, but only then until August 17, 1886, 
when the house was set on fire and totally destroyed. A small 
portion of the furniture w^as saved, and also the Chapter Eecords, 
which had been safe-guarded elsewhere. 

It was the most serious misfortune in the history of Tau, and 
one that would have crushed a less resolute band. Dr. Brock way, 
in his history of 20 years ago, says that as the returning brothers 
viewed the dismal ruins the question to them seemed to be : ''Not 



44 ^he History 



when will the Phoenix rise, but will she rise at all?" But by the 
aid of Tau grit, and by sacrifices made by undergraduates and 
Alumni alike, the Phoenix did rise to the loved home which has 
since sheltered the Dekes of nineteen classes. In its building a 
mortgage was assumed, the carrying of which was a long 
hindrance to the Chapter and the bane of the Kappa's existence. 
It was lifted in 1896 through the large and generous giving of 
Brother Benedict, supplemented by the loving contributions of a 
large number of our Alumni, and of every man who then com- 
posed the active Chapter. Gratefully appreciative of the help of 
every brother in that undertaking, specially recognizing the 
splendid generosity of Brother Benedict, this Chapter, neverthe- 
less, for that important movement, which freed us from debt, 
owes its warmest gratitude to that Brother who not only gave 
so largely himself, but who was the man behind the givers, to that 
loyal Deke who has stood by Tau in sunshine and storm— 
Brother John D. Henderson, of Herkimer. 

"There are Dekes from California; there are Dekes from far- 
off Maine," but none of them in their undergraduate days erected 
their altars on a fairer spot than that on which is the shrine of 
Tau. Other Chapters— -but not many— have a more beautiful 
house, but it is the boast of Tau, and the concurring opinion of 
every visiting Deke, that in all the fraternity there is no Chapter 
House with a more beautiful setting or a fairer outlook than 
ours at the foot of Freshman Hill. 

Of the fifty members of the Chapter who were capable of bear- 
ing arms in the Civil War, twenty-two entered the service, and of 
that number five — Buckingham, Peebles, Butts, Allen and 
Gwathmey gave their lives in the struggle, a struggle which in the 
family of Tau arrayed Brother against Brother, for of the 
twenty-two Tau Dekes who enlisted, one there was— Gwathmey 
of '59 — a young Virginian, who entered the Confederate Army as 
a private in Co. H. of the Ninth Virginia Cavalry. He was killed 
at Beams Station, Va., Aug. 24, 1864. No fraternity made a 
dearer sacrifice to that war than did Tau when she gave to the 
cause Buckingham of '62. It is the unanimous testimony of the 
men of his time that there was then in College no more loyal 
Deke, popular undergraduate, or better fellow than this Brother 



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whose name appears so frequently on our roll of honor, and 
whose memory is so dearly cherished by our Dekes of that day. 
He supplemented four years of brilliant work in college by win- 
ning in his Senior year the Clark Prize in Oratory and the 
Salutatory. He enlisted shortly after graduating and was com- 
missioned as Second Lieutenant of the 146th N. Y. Volunteers. 
He took a brave part in the Battle of the Wilderness, and was 
severely wounded in the fight. Upon his recovery he was commis- 
sioned First Lieutenant. As the College body was assembling for 
the opening of the fall term of the second year following hia 
graduation it was shocked and saddened by the news that Buck- 
ingham was dead. He was treacherously shot by a Confederate 
sharpshooter at Weldon Koad, Ya., on September 2, 1864, and 
died three hours thereafter. A Brother of that day has eloquently 
said *^that the most brilliant mind, the bravest soul, and the 
most genial companion of the class of '62 was taken when Buck- 
ingham was shot, and that his loss to his friends, the brotherhood 
and the College was irreparable." 

The recent Spanish War fortunately did not call for the 
sacrifice that Tau so bravely made in the Civil War. Nevertheless 
three of our Brothers saw service, Teomans of '92, Magilton of 
'97, and Goodwin, who for one year was a member of 1901. 

During its fifty years existence Tau has been first among the 
fraternities of Hamilton in scholarship and prize winning. The 
story of our success can best be read from the long Honor RoU of 
Scholarship in the Library. Shortly before his death, Brother W. 
T. Laird of '68, whose own excellence in scholarship insured the 
accuracy of his figures, prepared a comparative table by which 
it was shown that the average of this Chapter was highest, a 
record which is not diminished by the reflection that, save in three 
instances, our fraternity has not been represented in the College 
faculty since the time of Professor Kelsey. 

The Valedictory was first won for Tau by one of our founders 
who is our poet tonight — Brother Beecher of '58. As proof, 
though none is needed, that it has followed well the lead set by 
our forefathers, the active Chapter has again equaled in achieve- 
ment the Chapter of fifty years ago, and tonight in the person of 
Brother Driscoll, presents to this Anniversary gathering the 



46 'Vhe History 



Valedictorian of the Class of 1906. As a further reminder that 
Tau has lasted well, our undergraduate Brothers modestly call 
our attention to the fact that the Clark Prize in Oratory, which 
was first taken by Brother, J. K. Lewis of '60 was last won by 
Brother Purdy of 1906. 

The greatest honor ever won by an undergraduate of 
Hamilton was bestowed on a member of Tau Chapter when 
Brother F. F. Laird of '77, whose son is now in the active Chapter, 
was awarded the first prize in the Inter-Collegiate Contest in 
Oratory at the Academy of Music, in New York City, January 3, 
1877. In this contest the great reputation of the College for 
excellence in public speaking was put to its greatest test, and by 
the victory of Brother Laird the fame of Hamilton College 
oratory was increased and spread as never before. 

Probably two of the closest contests ever waged for a College 
prize were carried on between Hamilton College Dekes. One was 
the struggle between Verrill and Couper for the Valedictory of the 
class of '92, and the other was the contest for the Clark Prize in 
Oratory between Wouters and McGiffin of '93. Verrill won the 
Valedictory and McGiffin took "K. P.", but each by the narrowest 
of margins. Both battles were fought with all the earnestness 
which a Deke can show, but in each case the one who prevailed 
was a modest winner, while the other was a magnanimous loser. 

The success which Tau's undergraduates have attained in 
scholarship has never been at the expense of an active partici- 
pation in College affairs or to the neglect of the life that is social. 
No fraternity has equalled us in the number of men on the College 
publications, or has furnished as many captains and managers of 
the various College organizations. The fraternities of Hamilton 
combined have not produced football men who can match the 
prowess or the fame of Wood and Welsh of '92, Payne of '94, or 
of Finn and Rogers of '98, Rich and Jess Millham, the Drum- 
monds — Dick and Nelse, Redmond, Wills and Schwartz. No 
better hosts ever welcomed prettier girls to pleasanter dances 
than do the members of Tau Chapter at "Prom" week and at 
Commencement time. The Chapter house life has never been 
marred b^^ serious dissension and has helped to make a better 
man of every Deke who has lived it. The morale of the Chapter is 



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shown by the fact — of which I am now reminded by the Sahara- 
like expression of that good Deke, Bob Kelsey, and of the Metro- 
politan Brothers— that after fifty years of College existence, we 
are tonight drinking nothing but water. 

The far fame of Hamilton College— a fame not possessed in as 
high measure by any institution of similar numbers has, among 
others, two important causes : One is the College's long estab- 
lished reputation for Oratory, which this Chapter helped largely 
to make, and the other is the unusually large number of its 
Alumni who have won high places in the world's affairs, of which 
Tau has furnished her share and more. It wonld be invidious to 
refer to particular instances of success, nor does time permit. 
Suffice it to say, that in ministry and in medicine, in teaching and 
in business, and in law, politics and statecraft,- Tau 's sons bear a 
worthy and successful part. The Chapter has always viewed with 
special pride the success which has been attained by Brother 
Benedict, that Captain of Industry, that Master of Finance, that 
lonely representative of the Capitalistic Class, who as yet has 
suffered neither opprobrium or indictment. 

None of our Brothers belong to the ''Down and Out Club,'' 
while by the appointment of Brother Thomas H. Norton of '73 
to be United States Consul at Kharput, Turkey, which historians 
say was the dwelling place of Adam and Eve. Tan has the distinc- 
tion of being the only Chapter on earth whose alumnus was 
deemed worthy to hold office in the Grarden of Eden. 

The traditions which have come down to ns relative to the 
fraternity doings are too interesting to pass without mention, 
but too many to relate in detail. Many of these gather around 
the present Chapter House. It was there that life was care free ; 
it was there that we sang the songs of A K E, never better sung b}^ 
any Deke than by Kid Allison of '96 ; it was there that we listened 
at Commencement time to the yearly exchange of stories between 
Brother W. T. Laird and Brother Henderson — stories whose 
vermilion hue rivaled the color of the summer's snn as it rises 
over the valley of the Oriskany. Of the traditions, that one is 
the dearest which relates to the aid once rendered by two of Tau's 
Alumni in the rushing season. Two freshmen, especialh^ desirable, 
were being energetically rushed by the Dekes at the opening of the 



48 ^he History 



fall term. The freshmen seemed impressed but hesitant, and it 
was thought that the persiiasive eloquence of the Alumni was 
needed. Two were accordingly sent for and their expected arrival 
impressiveh^ announced to the desired neophytes. While the 
crowd, with the freshmen in tow, were attending an evening meet- 
ing of some kind on the hill the joyful tidings reached them that 
the two Alumni had arrived at the Deke House, and the two 
freshmen were hurried thither to be impressed. The two Alumni, 
who were other and in different condition than the two expected, 
were found peacefully sleeping on the parlor floor clothed in the 
outlandish costume of a citizen of Patagonia, but with the breech 
cloth missing. There was no doubt in anybody's mind but that 
the freshmen were impressed. 

A history of Tau would be inadequate, also, which did not 
make mention of the unique personality of Henrj^ "Hades" Hull 
of the class of 1901. Never has Tau taken to her virtuous 
bosom a freshman of such pleasing wickedness, precocious intel- 
lect or raucous voice. Early in his course he attracted to himself 
the attention of the Brothers by consigning to the place which 
the undergraduate believes is reserved for the faculty, the son of a 
female dog who had stolen his Bible. It is a source of keen regret 
to your historian that you of earlier and later classes could not 
have known better this Brother, who during his course earned the 
reputation of being the most entertaining Deke among us, and 
who in the words of Barnum & Bailey's press agent was at all 
times startling, stunning, stupendous and stupefying. 

Reverently, and tonight with special tenderness, we remember 
the Brothers who never again shall meet us here. Among them is 
George Wood '92. Seldom has our Chapter been so saddened as 
by his sudden death within a few months following his gradua- 
tion. It is the unanimous testimony not only of the Dekes of his 
time, but of his college mates and the faculty as well, that no man 
in College then or since has received the respect, the popularity, or 
the affection of all as did George Wood. In football he was to 
Hamilton what Heffelfinger was to Yale. He was brilliant as a 
scholar, lovable as a man, and an exceptionally loyal Deke. His 
death terminated a career of splendid promise, and by it this 
Chapter suffered irreparable loss. De Witt, McGuire, Yerrill '92, 



^he History 49 



.good old Dr. Foote of '69, Ackler '89, Magilton once of '97, 
Smith for one year a member of '98, W. T. Laird of '68, that 
staunch friend of Tau ; his classmate, Daniel Finn, a splendid 
man and a loyal Deke ; Watrous, that good fellow of College 
days ; these and others will never again in life join in a reunion of 
the fraternity they loved so well. 

Such is the story that your historian has to relate. Imper- 
fectly as it may have been told, it is a story which in each one of 
us arouses memories that are imperishable, memories of that 
place about which linger the pleasantest joys of life and the 
tenderest romance of college days— memories of Tau of A K E. 

" Bright stars may shine upon our course. 

Their radiance most benign, 
None more resplendent than thy brow. 

No power to guide like thine. 
Forgotten are our sorrows here, 

And cares corrodent flee, 
When circled in thy strong embrace 

Oh, beauteous AKE." 




Roll of Members 



The Roll of Members 

Corrected to October 1st., 1907 



HONORARY MEMBER 
*Jame8 Gardner 



ACTIVE MEMBERS 



1856 *^'^^^08e Parsons Kelsey 

James M. Washburn, 
♦Benjamin F. WlUoughby 



MaeonvlUe, N. Y. 



1857 *^<^^6rlck Baldwin 

A. Norton Brockway, 
John C. Long, 
♦Alfred TV. Newman 
♦Hiram P. Satchwell 

1858 ^ll^^s J. Beecher, 
♦William L. Carthers 

♦Richard B. Gwathmey 

Eugene B. Hastings, 
•Henry C. Howe 
♦Francis H. Loomis 
♦William Lusk, Jr. 

John N. Root, 



1859 



♦A. Miner Grlswold 
Samuel D. Hubbard, 
Edmund B. Miner, 
♦Hubert F. Peebles 
Joseph E. Scott, 

-j^Q^Q Anson K. Bailey, 

♦Reuben S. Bingham 
♦Charles K. Howe 

Charles Kelsey, 

John R. Lewis, 
^Nelson B. Randall 

•Deceased. 



485 Central Park West, New York City 
East Aurora, N. Y. 



183 Genesee Street, Auburn, N. Y. 



48 Oneida Street, Utica, N. Y. 



Marcellus, Mich. 

Mondovi, Wis. 
Camp Point, III. 

1386 Haight Street, San Francisco, Cal. 

Decorah, la. 



Marquette, Mich. 
Deerfield, N. Y. 



53 



54 



%// of Members 



1 861 *Jo^^ ^- McNair 

John G. Osborne, 
Abel S. Wood, 



Port Byron, 111. 
Keuka Park, Y. N. 



1862 



*Charles M. Babcock 
*Charles L. Buckingham 



Wales Buel, 

Charles W. Cole, 
*George P. Hart 

Myron A. McKee, 
*Alfred H. Moss 
*Edward F. Moss 
*John D. Rogers 
*Julius C. Watkins 

William C. Winslow, 



Walesville, N. Y. 
854 Hudson Avenue, Albany, N. Y. 

Richfield Springs, N. Y. 



525 Beacon Street, Boston, Mass. 



1863 



*Charles A. Butts 
Charles E. Davenport, 
*Charles M. Foster 
*D wight M. Lee 
*George M. Loomis 



Terrace Place, Troy, N. Y. 



1864 *Clinton M. Ball 

*Oscar M. Dayton 

John H. Howell 
*John J. Lewis 

James D. S. Pardee, 

Frank L. Place, 
^Charles M. Winslow 
"Ezra B. Wood 



Address Unknown. 

Saybrook, Conn. 
Cortland, N. Y. 



1S65 ^George H. Allen 
Orville P. Allen, 
*Truman S. L. Betts 
*Alfred H. Champlin 
LeRoy Parker, 



11 Pine Street, New York City 



410 Mutual Life Building, Buffalo, N. Y. 



1866 *^d^'^i*^ ^' Grrant 
*William W. Kirby 
Charles J. Knapp, 



Binghamton, N. Y. 



1867 



*Howard Allison 
Charles E. Babcock, 
Elliott P. Kissner, 
Albert P. Potter, 
*Frank E. Tompkins 
Elliott S. Williams. 



Canastota, N. Y. 

Hazelton, Pa. 

707 Madison Street, Syracuse, N. Y. 

Clinton, N. Y. 



%// of Members 



55 



1868 George M. Dillow, 
*Danie] Finn 

John D. Henderson, 
*William T. Laird 

Joseph A. Marshall, 



223 West 57th Street, New York City 

Herkimer, N. Y. 

1305 L. Street, Sacramento, Cal. 



1869 



Henry Harper Benedict, 
Louis N. Chapin, 

John D. Conley, 

John L. Douglass, 

^Lewis R. Foote 

AVilliam P. Heston, 

William S. Pinnej^ 

Adelbert J. Schlager, 

■Henry H. Wells, Jr. 

William H. Whiting, 



280 Broadway, New York City 

Hotel Margaret, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Carlinville, 111. 

Los Angeles, Cal. 

2901 Collingwood Arenue, Toledo, O. 

Ray, No. Dakota 

Binghamton, N. Y. 

234 Powers Building, Rochester, N. Y. 



1870 



Charles E. Allison, 
^Edward Brayton 
Nathaniel Foote, 
*Herbert W. Knapp 
James S. Root. 

1 871 Charles J. Palmer, 
Frederick St. John, 
Charles Unangst, 
*Charles A. Wiley 

187*^ "Joseph D. Fisher 

Henry S. Johnson, 
Anthony Peck, 
Walter S. Peterson, 
Charles H. Stanton, 
Orrin C. Stevens, 



1873 *G^orge H. Luddington 

'^William McDuffee 
Isaac N. Miller, 
Thomas H. Norton, 
Edward S. Peck. 



Y'onkers, N. Y. 

245 Culver Road, Rochester, N. Y. 

24 Arnett Street, Rochester, N. Y'. 

Little Falls, N. Y. 

Queen St., St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada 

27 William Street, New York City 



Plattsburg, N. Y. 

Norwich, Conn. 

Hawley, Pa. 

Clinton, N. Y. 

Middleburg, N. Y. 



293 Broadway, New York City 

Chemnitz, Germany 

52 Broadway, New York City 



1874 



Charles A. Babcock, 
Abel E. Blackmar, 

Samuel C. Heston, 
*Chester Robie 

George H. Wallace, 



Oil City, Pa. 

31 Nassau Street, New Y^ork City 
566 The Spitzer, Toledo, O. 

60 East 92nd Street, New York City. 



56 



7^o// of Members 



1 ATK *WllIlam H. DeWitt 
-^^'^ Fred Dick, 

Richard C. Hastings, 

William Little, 

Samuel H. Peek, 

Alvin B. Poor, 

Willard K. Spencer, 



Denver, Col. 

Thorsby, Ala. 

Towanda, Pa. 

East Aurora, N. Y. 

Ill North 3rd Street, Cedar Rapids, la. 

116 High Street, Ionia, Mich. 



1876 



*Frank S. Bartlett 
Elliott D. R. Fisher, 
*Fayette Kelly 
Robert R. Little, 



Rock Island, 111. 
Bloomsburg, Pa. 



1877 



Louis Boisot, 
George Hodges, 
*Frank F. Laird 



824 Fifth Avenue, La Grange, 111. 
3 Mason Street, Cambridge, Mass. 



1878 Frank P. Bronson, 72 Concession Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Can. 
George W. Ellis, Normal School, Emporia, Kan. 

John H. Gardner, Fort Covington, N. Y. 

George E. Salladin, Milford, Neb. 

George S. Webster, 310 East 67th Street, New York City 

1879 *^^o^Se F. Crumby 

Charles E. De Witt, DeWitt-Seitz Company, Duluth, Minn. 
William G. Hamlin, 508-9 Iowa Loan & Trust Co. Bldg., Des Moines, la. 

George E. Pritchard, 78 West Street, Utica, N. Y. 

Gilbert Reid, 36 Range Road, Shanghai, China 

Robert R. Watkins, Campbell, N. Y. 



-j^ooQ Harold J. Frothingham, 

George H. Ottaway, 
Raymond H. Stearns, 



Delta, Colo. 

Blue Mountain Lake, N. Y. 

Charlton, N. Y. 



-1 oo-| Lee S. Pratt, 

Alonzo J. Whiteman, 



89 State Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Dansville, N. Y. 



1882 Charles E. Edgerton, 80 V Street N. W., Washington, D. C. 

Anthony H. Evans, 27 East 31st Street, New York City 

Harry B. Knowlton, care of Travelers' Insurance Co., Chicago, III. 

Franklin A. Spencer, Peoria, 111. 



1883 *^^w^^ ^- Morey 

William W. Stow, Jr. 



(Address unknown) 



Iloll of Members 



57 



1884 Herbert G. Aldrich, 

John A. Dalzell, 
Wesley E. Doxtater, 
Murray H. Gardner, 
Reuben L. Maynard, 
Charles L. Myers, 
D. Francis Searle, 



Gouverneur, N. Y. 

Morton, Minn. 

1000 First North Street, Syracuse, N. Y. 

Brewster, N. Y. 

141 Broadway, New York City 

123 Pearl Street, Albany, N. Y. 

Rome, N. Y. 



1885 



Charles H. Clark, 
Frank N. Holman, 

Charles H. Kelsey, 

Robert A. King, 

Norman J. Marsh, 



Gouverneur, N. Y. 

South Pasadena, Calif. 

Journal, Milwaukee, Wis. 

Crawfordsville, Ind. 

76 William Street, New York City 



1 8Sfi Samuel R. Brown, 
William P. Garrett, 

*Franklin R. Hughes 
Charles E. Nichols, 
Myron J. Sherwood, 
George E. VanKennen, 



Pulaski, N. Y. 
Onondaga Station, Syracuse, N. Y. 

Schoharie, N. Y. 

Marquette, Mich. 

Ogdensburg, N. Y. 



-| QQ7 Henry A. Brown, 806 Mercantile Library Bldg., Cincinnati, O. 

Charles B. Cole, 45 Wall Street, New York City 

Jonas F. Mann, 45 Wall Street, New York City 



1888 *^^1^^^ ^- Lowrie 

William Seward Partridge, 
*Hiram A. Vance 
George H. Witherhead, 



329 Equitable Bldg., Denver, Colo. 
Gloversville, N. Y. 



1889 'Lincoln C. Adder 

Elmer E. Dockstader, 
*William J. McGuire 



Pattersonville, N. Y. 



1890 ^^^y C- Covell, 
Frank Gibbons, 
Charles O. Gray, 
Lincoln A. Groat, 
Frederick E. Knapp, 
Charles D. Lee, 
Calvin L. Lewis, 
George H. Minor, 



Cazenovia, N. Y. 
5 Erie County Savings Bank, Buffalo, N. Y. 

Marshall, N. C. 

403 Main Street, Buffalo, N. Y. 

U. S, Leather Company, New York City 

Utica, N. Y. 

107 St. James Place, Brooklyn, N, Y. 

11 Broadway, New York City 



58 



lloll of Members 



1891 



William W. Brim, 
Robert N. Brockway, 

Alexander Jameson, 

Albert E. Stuart, 

Percy L. Wight, 



Lockport, N. Y. 

Grand Central Station, New York City 

Ogdensburg, N. Y. 

Woodbine, Pa. 

Clinton, N. Y. 



1892 



Walter T. Couper, 
Orville T. Fletcher, 
Alfred W. Gray, 
George L. Gregory, 
*Henry S. Verrill 
Frederick W^. Welsh, 
Charles E. Williams, 
^George F. Wood 
Charles W. Yeomans, 



307 5th Avenue, S. E. Minneapolis, Minn. 

27 Howard Avenue, Binghamton, N. Y. 

45 Falls Street, Niagara Falls, N. Y. 

McClure, N. Y. 

4 Henry Street, Binghamton, N. Y. 
Geneva, N. Y. 

Binghamton, N. Y. 



1893 ^^' ^^^^*o^ Brockway, 

Charles H. Clark, 
Nathaniel McGiffin, 
Hurlon D. Sheldon, 
Elbert M. Somers, 
Sanford L. Underwood, 
Alexander Wouters, 



Greeley, Colo. 

Bainbridge, N. Y. 

Holdredge, Neb. 

16 Morris Street, Auburn, N. Y. 

Ogdensburg, N. Y. 

236 South Main Street, Pittston, Pa. 

124 Standardt Street, Syracuse, N. Y. 



1894 *Jobii N. Beach, Jr. 
A. James Faiche, 

Lewis N. Foote, 

James A. Minor, 

Arthur M. Payne, 
*George A. Watrous 

Fred A. Wood, 



3120 Broadway, New York City 

147 Hancock Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

176 Broadway, New York City 

Middletown, N. Y. 

Dakota City, Neb. 



1895 



William A. Aiken, 
Harold W. Cole, 

F. Percy Knapp, 

Hosmer W. Leeds, 

Samuel G. Palmer, 



Morrisville, N. Y. 

184 Inwood Avenue, Upper Montclair, N. J. 

Binghamton, N. Y. 

1004 Railway Exchange, Chicago, 111, 

R. F. D. No. 2, East Syracuse, N. Y. 



-1 oQ^ Alexander Alison, Jr. 
Horace G. At water, 
George W. Elkins, 
Edward McNally, 
Arthur T. Warner, 
Gardner W. Wood, 



901 Washington Street, Wilmington, Del. 

Norwood, N. Y. 

34 Pine Street, New York City 

953 Park Place, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Cobleskill, N. Y. 

7 West 22d Street, New York City 



%)ll of Members 59 



1897 Crosby J. Beakes, Grand Central Station, New York City 
David A. Davy, 2225 Southport Avenue, Chicago, 111. 

James M. Glass, care of Allyn & Bacon, 33 Union Square, New York City 
*John K. Magilton, 

Joshua E. Sweet, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa. 

James A, Winans, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. 

1898 Bertrand W. Babcock, 2445 Grand Ave., Fordham Heights, N. Y. 
*George W. Daly 

Frank H. Finn, Middletown, N. Y. 

Robert G. Kelsey, 341 Riverside Drive, cor. 115th Street, New York City 

Ralph S. Minor, Reno, Nev. 

Samuel K. Plercy, Newburg, N. Y. 

Edward A. Rogers, Lockport, N. Y. 
*Eugene R. Smith 

-j^oQQ H. Murray Andrews, 11 Broadway, New York City 

Warren I. Lee, 20 Broad Street, New York City 

Abram Lipfeld, 76 William Street, New York City 

Charles R. Millham, 383 Oxford Street, Rochester, N. Y. 

Willett C. Pierson, 26 Neal Terrace, Detroit A v. & 89th St., Cleveland, O. 



1 900 Arthur C. Higgins, Lock Haven, Pa. 

Benjamin W. Moore, 191 Berkeley Place, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

H. Dorsey Spencer, 179 Lincoln Street, Boston, Mass. 

Harry J. Thayer, R.R. Y.M.C. A.,cor.l50th St. and Spencer PI,, N.Y. City 



1901 Herbert R. Bicknell, Potsdam, N. Y. 

Howard I. Davenport, Canandaigua, N. Y. 

Richard C. S. Drummond, Auburn, N. Y. 

Harry C. Goodwin, Watertown, N. Y. 

Henry H. Hull, 11 Broadway, New York City 

James McKee, Richfield Springs, N. Y. 

Jesse B. Millham, 280 Lyell Avenue, Rochester, N.- Y. 
Daniel W. Redmond, College of the City of New York, New York City 



1902 Franklin H. Church, 225 Genesee Street, Utica, N. Y. 

Nelson L. Drummond, Auburn, N. Y. 

Charles Harwood, 76 William Street, New York City 

Clark H. Minor, Western Electric Compan3% Omaha, Neb. 

Harry E. Reeve, Newburg, N. Y. 

William H. Slaughter, German Hospital, Brooklyn, N. Y. 



60 



lioll of Members 



1903 



Francis M. Barnes, Jr., 
Albert C. Busch, 

Thomas R. L. Carter, 

Harrison W. Foreman, 

Laurence A. Harl^ness, 

Edward H. Lomber, 

John H. Mangan, 

Albert P. Mills, 

James P. Tate, 

Herbert M. Tuthill, 

Wilfred E. Youker, 



Sheppard & Pratt Hospital, Towson, Md. 

Cold Spring, N. Y. 

Trenton, Tenn. 

17 South Street, Utica, N. Y. 

830 Greene Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Canandaigua, N. Y. 

Binghamton, N. Y. 

Boys' Academy, Albany, N. Y. 

Warwick, N. Y. 

Prattsburg, N. Y. 

20 Broad Street, New York City 



1904 



Edward S. Carr, 
Dewey J. Carter, 

Charles F. Seiter, 

Andrew J. Steele, 



Floyd M. Wills, 
Addison W. Wood, 



N. Y. & N. J. Tel. Company, Newark, N. J. 

195 Berkeley Place, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

U. S. Revenue Cutter Service, Baltimore, Md. 

302 Hart Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 



Manufacturers and Traders Bank, Buffalo, N. Y. 

Prattsburg, N. Y. 



1905 



Harold E. Hallman, 
H. Harvey Harwood, 

Robert U. Hayes, 

Walter M. Palmer, 

Richard A. Poison, 



Theological Seminary, Princeton, N. J. 
500 Willoughby Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Clinton, N. Y. 

Columbia Law School, New York City 

91 North 3d Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 



1906 



Rumley DeWitt, 
Martin A. DriscoU, 

Alexander M. Drummond, 

James J. Hosmer, 

Stanley H. Murdock, 

William T, Purdy, 



25 Locust Street, Troy, N. Y. 

Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Mass. 

Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. 

Auburn, N. Y. 

Genoa, N. Y. 

Western Electric Company, Chicago, 111. 



1907 



Harwood M. Schwartz, 
Kenneth A. Sprague, 



Barber Asphalt Company, Utica, N. Y. 
Roscoe, N. Y. 



1908 



Earl W. Anibal, 
John D. Henderson, 

Frank T. Laird, 

Charles B. McCarthy, 

Thomas J. Mooney, 

J. Howard Morgan. 

Benjamin B. Roseboom, Jr., 

Harold J. Snyder, 



Gloversville, N. Y. 

Herkimer, N. Y. 

Utica, N. Y. 

Auburn, N. Y. 

532 West 147th Street, New York City 

Auburn, N. Y. 

Auburn, N. Y. 

Cornell Law School, Ithaca, N. Y. 



lioll of Members 



61 



1 909 Carl A. Beck, 
Frank E. Felt, 

Harold P. Osborne, 
^Samuel H. Saunders 

George F. Wallace, 



New Haven, Conn. 

Emporium, Pa. 

New Hartford, N. Y. 

Herkimer, N. Y. 



1910 



Robert O. A. Burns, 
Leo O. Coupe, 

Francis R. Harper, 

William H. Moore, 

Charles F. Stube, 



Clinton, N. Y. 

Utica, N. Y. 

Clinton, N. Y. 

Colgate University, Hamilton, N. Y. 

Fonda, N. Y. 



1911 Claude E. Anibal, 

Arthur W. Armistead, 
Harry B. Curtis, 
Murray M. Gardner, 
Harold F. Johnson, 
William J. Manion, 
Myron E. AVilder, 



Gloversville, N. Y. 

Aurora, N. Y. 

Rockdale, N. Y. 

Fort Covington, N. Y. 

Oxford, N. Y. 

Ferndale, N. Y. 

Canandaigua, N. Y. 



Errata 

Page 3. Read Warren Isbell Lee. 

Page 41. 

Page 42, line 3, for " Establish, as trustee" read " establish. As trustee" 

Page 42, line 12, for " of '59, writing " read " of '59, Writing " 

Page 47, last paragraph, for " Allison " read *' Alison" 

Page 54, 1864. John H. Howell, Soldiers Home, LosAngeles Co., Calif. 

Page 56, 1880, George H. Ottoway, Pulaski, N. Y. 

Page 56, 1882. Franklin A. Spencer, Masonic Temple, Peoria, 111. 



